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low 2.6

CVE-2002-1444 json

The Google toolbar 1.1.60, when running on Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash with…

published 2002-08-15 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1427

cvss
2.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.5%
EPSS 13.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The Google toolbar 1.1.60, when running on Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash with an exception in oleaut32.dll) via malicious HTML, possibly related to small width and height parameters or an incorrect call to the Google.Search() function.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21712)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

13.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21712 Google Toolbar 1.1.60 - Search Function Denial of Service dos, 2002-08-15
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5477 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • sztolnia.pl http://www.sztolnia.pl/hack/googIE/googIE.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • online.securityfocus.com http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/287498 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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